The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-12-01

and approve all bonds.
Sec. %. Each county and subordinate
Alliance shall be allowed to frame it's own
constitution and bylaws, profided they
shall not conflict with the constitution and
bylaws of the State Alliance.
ARTICLE III.
Sec. l. The State Alliance shall meet
annually on the second Tuesday in
August, and the delegates to the same
shall be elected at the July meeting of the
county Alliances. The county Alliances
shall meet on LIST Friday in January,
April, July and October, and the delegates
to the same shall be elected by the subor-
dinate Alliances at their first meeting in
March, June, September and December,
or as soon thereafter as practicable. Subor-
dinate Alliances shall meet at least once in
each month. The officers of the State
Alliance shall be elected at the annual
meeting in August. The officers of the
county Alliances at their meeting in July
and the officers of the subordinate ALI
ances at their first meeting in June, or as
soon thereafter as practicable.
Sec. 2. All officers of the State Alliance
are authorized to organize Farmers Ali
ances and said Alliances shall receive their
charter signed by the president and sec
rotary of the State Alliance before they
will be recognized, provided they may
act under a certificate from the organic
ing officer until they receive their charter,
or the certificate be revoked.
Sec. 3. Delegates from one-fourth of
the county Alliances in the State shall
constitute a quorum in the State Alliance.
Delegates from one-fourth Of the subOr-
dinate Alliances in the county shall con-
stitute a quorum in the county Alliance.
Nine members shall constitute a quorum
in the subordinate Alliance.
Sec. 4. A county Alliance shall be
formed whenever there are five subor-
dinate Alliances in the county.
Sec. 5. The president of the county
Alliance may call a meeting of his ALI
ance, when in his Judgment it is for the
good of the order, and upon the call of
five Alliances he shall call a meeting. The
President of the subordinate Alliance may
call a meeting at any time when he may
| see proper for the good of the order.
ARTICLE ".
QUALIFICATIONS FOR MEMBERSHIP.
Sec. l. No person shall be admitted as
a member unless he has been a citizen of
the State of N. G. for six months past,
and not then unless he be a farmer, farm
laborer, mechanic, country school teacher,
country physician or a minister of the
gospel, be of good moral character, be-
lieve in the existence Of a Supreme Being,
be of Industrious habits, is a white per-
son and over the age of sixteen years.
Further, when any member of the subor-
| dinate Alliance shall engage in any occupa-
ton which would render him ineligible
before initiation, said member shall at once
be dismissed from the Alliance and fur
niShed by the secretary, a written state
ment of the cause of his dismissal pro-
| vided, that the above shall not apply to-
members of the Alliance who may be
selected to buy and sell as merchants I'M
der the supervision of the Alliance.
Sec. 2. If any person seemingly quail
fed for membership under section n of
this article shall send in his application
and it shall be shown to the committee Of
investigation that he has other interests
that do not harmonic with the objects of
the order, they shall report adversely to
his admission and make a statement Of
the facts in the case, and the secretary
shall inform the applicant of the causes of
his ineligibility.
Sec. 3. No member shall be admitted
to membership in more than one Alliance
at one time. .....#
Sec. 4. There shall not be any partisan
or sectarian test for membership.
ARTICLE V.
Sec. l. Allfees and dues in the subordi-
nate Alliance are due and payable quar-
terly, in advance. Members in arrears
for dues for three months shall stand sus-
pended without action of the Alliance,
but they shall Immediately become men,
bers in good standing by the payment of
such dues.
Sec. 2. The initiation fee shall be fifty
cents and the dues shall be twenty-five
cents a quarter, provided all females shall
be exempted from all dues.
Sec. g.. The secretary of the subordinate
Alliance shall send, with his quarterly re-
port to the county Alliance, twenty-five
cents for each male member initiated
during the quarter, and ten cents dues for
each male member of his Alliance reported
for the quarter. The secretary of the county
Alliance shall send with his quarterly
report to the secretary of the State ALI
ance, fifteen cents for each male member
initiated in his county reported in good
standing for the previous said quarterly
term, and five cents dues for each male
member in his county reported in good
standing for the said quarterly term.
Sec. 4. The charter fee for a subordinate
Alliance shall be eight dollars, which shall
be paid by the subordinate Alliance at the
time of organization. The organizing